Thursday, March 12, 2009

Sonnet 1

Sonnet 1


You are a lover I shall not have loved
When I first saw you, my heart was beeping.
Your smile stirred me, could not be resisted
Whenever I have seen your face smiling,

That day became my day in my own world.
I want to tell you words of my heart,
But the right time, only in my dream world
My heart is yours, I wish we never part.

How dumb, how timid, and how speech-less I am!
The very sight of you just makes me mild
I don't, but I really give a damn
In your eyes, I only look like a child

The more I push you away from my mind,
The end will be closer for us mankind

Reflection on the writhing sonnet

In our language Art class, we had special events for writhing a love poem.
Before I wrote my poem, I think about my love first. My poem is based on what I feel now. When I write my poem, I got little bit of sadness also. Because, I was too emotionally while I wrote a poem.
I spend a lot of times to focus on the rule of sonnet, for example 14 lines, 10 slivers etc. When I had a hard time to writhing it, I asked Aled and Max to organize my poem. I should say thanks for them.
It was great time to write a poem, I could share my feelings with our classmate by love poem and some points we cared each other.

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Teaching Civic Responsibility

Teaching Civic Responsibility

The area of teaching is wide. It is really hard to say that which is good or bad teaching and education. The article that we read in class was a great tool that we might have to know as knowledge. They gave us several different ideas with break into few different chapters. While I read this article, I found some great point that I agree myself, which I’ll going to write it by words.

I found an interest quote from first chapter, which is "The personally responsible citizen acts responsibly...” I strongly agree with this statement. Because, just like what they give us an examples, giving blood, recycling, volunteering etc. those are basic stuff that we must have for our own responsibility. Plus, I had experience of these facts. When I did that first time, I hated do that, because, I felt wasting time. But, since I did second time, third time and more, I finally realize myself that these things are really good things that we must have to do. As soon as we have done with responsible to citizen or our society, we will learn how does human have to live with others etc.

Secondly, there was an quote about economy issue called "When the economy’s bad and....." It reminds me to looking back our first semester of Global Ethics class.
We spend whole first semester to focus on facts corporation. Corporations are not always making good business; they give us some bad facts like pollution, losing a job, politics, economy etc. I think, it still hasn’t solved some problems yet or we can’t solve it those problems, but I believe that we can change it into better. If there are some problems around us, it means we can make it better and work.

Lastly, I wanted ask my self this question from reading. "What does this mean for teaching democracy.....?" Reason why I choose this question is because; what I am thinking of teaching democracy is not only freedom, it also teach us either how to develop our self better or for society. If you don't know about personal democracy, it won't help to understand whoever says about democracy. In our school's education system is totally different than any other schools in the world. We choose computer education systems instead of text book and we spend a lot of time to do some community service too, which means our education changes into more relate with our civilization.

When I finished this article, I found some connections with our school’s education system and some social issues from article. But, I realize that teacher and student have to develop their education systems better.

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Reaction to Friedman's article

Since industrial revolution had been, We start using a lot of sources for making new products and innovate new stuff for our life become more intelligent. But the cause of innovating new is not always good. Look at our nature, It's polluted by us, and we are going into lack of resources.

On this article, It mentioned about carbon footprint.
Carbon footprint is not just about polluted something by chemicals or using resources. Carbon footprint is basically caused directly or indirectly by an individual, organization, event or new product to make it. It's all from our daily life and school.

HIS designed by 1 to 1 laptop systems for educate. Which means, All of students are using their laptop during class and break time. On this moment, does anyone think about the cause of using about 13 people's are using laptop in same class? While we are using laptop, fan is running to make sure cooling down each laptops, which makes heat out and students who don't have enough battery, they are using charger to charge it, it needs a lot of electricity too.
In order to fix this problem, I think we must try to use our laptop less or use a notebook with pen instead of use electronic devices.

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

cross dressing day

Could playing with cross dressing be healthy and why?
- It's really hard to say cross dressing day is healthy or not. Because, It's unusual for both gender.
But, I think it's great experience. Because, We get the idea that how boys or girls wear different and hard. For example, boys won't know how girls wear skirts and some underwear too.
here is another example, when girls are late, sometimes they says "Sorry, I late because, I spend a time for wearing pretty cloth". But, If the guy had experience of wearing girls cloth, they would understand. But, if the guy who don't have experience at all, they'll have some fight.

Based on what I wrote, I think, having cross dressing day is healthy, if there is some special events like we are having today. But, if we do that everyday, It'll give us difference of sexual character. That's why we had trans gender in our society.

Is cross dressing more difficult for boys or for girls and why?
-I think, boys are more difficult than girls. Because, boys are always wear short or long pants with T-shirts or hood etc. which girls wear too. But, Boys are not wearing a skirt. plus, when we wear skirt, we have to close our legs but as we know boys body constructor, it's really hard to close there legs. So, i think boys are more difficult than girls

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Ideas for Innovation

Innovation.
It is basically means that the new introduction of new things, ideas or ways of doing sth.
It can be change, develop or improve.

On this article, It mentioned about educational leadership, specially in school.
When i finished
read this article, I strongly agreed with this article. Because, academic learning and strength social capital must develop by parents and school. Students has a rights to have good education.

One fact I really like was part 4, which talks about civics education.
creating civic skills, imparting civic knowledge and developing civic values, I think these facts are really important for high school students. People might says that high school education is most important than any other school times. Because, high school education influence the real society life.

But, I disagree on the fact of small school. Because, It's hard to say that small school is always be successful or good for education. It depends on teacher and student like how much efforts put on there responsibilities. As a fact, big school kids are going to good universities.
Because, they have their own skill and good university knows which schools are good.
even though, some writer or professor says big schools are bad, it's hard to break traditional or real facts.

Thursday, December 4, 2008

The End of Suburbia


Last class in our Global Ethics class, We watched video clip called "The End of Suburbia".
While i watched this movie, I couldn't get idea. But, when we had class discussion, One thing strike me out was "Sustainability" from Global Environment Issue class last year.
Global Environment Issue class focused on pollution and environment. Which is really important facts that we must know logically.

Now, I'm going to talk about one fact that different between US and Taiwan.
One thing i can clearly see is "Transportation"
US has a great Transportation systems that people using it. Although, it's really organize well.
But in Taiwan, Most of peoples are taking motor cycle in state of using Transportation systems.
We know riding a motor cycle is convenient, But It makes a lot of CO2's every year. Which attacks ozone.
I think, Taiwanese governments are not really focused on organizing Transportation systems every where in Taiwan. Because, they ride motor cycle's more than riding public bus.

The reason why Transportation systems are important is because, As soon as people start using transportation systems, We can save our energy and Air pollution. Air pollution is one of the reason that cause of Global Warming, which makes Ice melting and green house effects.

In order to success transportation system, Governments has to come up with Organize plan and they have to make sure advertise well enough to citizens.
We have to be more serious at some problems that we can fix it before everything is turn into
bad situation.